An Invitation from Free Spirit

We live in a world that rewards speed, productivity, and certainty. Yet death, the one experience that ultimately shapes every life remains largely unspoken, misunderstood, and avoided. At Free Spirit, we believe this avoidance costs us more than we realise. It distances us from meaning, from presence, and from what it truly means to live well.

Free Spirit was founded on a simple but profound truth: how we relate to death shapes how we live.

Through her work as a death doula and spiritual practitioner, Catherine Shovlin has spent years walking alongside people at the end of life. She has witnessed not just physical dying, but emotional, relational, and spiritual transformation that can come from dying and grieving. What has become clear for her is facing death with awareness and compassion, allows fear to soften and life to open up.

What Free Spirit stands for

Free Spirit exists to bring death out of the shadows and into honest, grounded, human conversation.

Not in a morbid way. Rather in a liberating way.

We create space for people to:

• Explore their beliefs about death and dying
• Understand grief as a natural, ongoing relationship with loss
• See grief and loss as a transformational opportunity
• Reconnect with what truly matters
• Live more consciously, courageously, and authentically

At Free Spirit, we don’t just talk about death. We use it as a lens for life.

Why This Matters Now

Modern culture has professionalised and institutionalised dying. While medicine has its place, something vital has been lost along the way: intimacy, ritual, presence, empowerment and personal meaning.

When death is hidden, fear grows. And when fear grows, life becomes smaller.

Free Spirit invites a different relationship with this critical and sacred moment of our lives. One rooted in awareness, compassion, and choice.

When people begin to look directly at mortality, they stop postponing their truth. They stop waiting for “someday” and start living with intention.

An invitation to walk this path with us

Free Spirit is a call back to wholeness.

If you are:
• Curious about death but unsure how to approach it
• Carrying grief you haven’t had space to honour
• Feeling a quiet sense that something in your life wants to shift
• Or ready to live with more depth, honesty, and presence

…then Free Spirit is for you.

Through courses, conversations, and ritual, Catherine guides people to meet death, not with fear, but with reverence. And in doing so, to meet life more fully. This is not a religious based activity; this is about your life force.

Your Next Step

You don’t have to wait for loss to begin this work.
You don’t have to wait for crisis to start living differently.

The invitation is here, to begin the Sacred Death journey and reclaim your relationship with death. By becoming Death Aware, you could reclaim your life.

Contact freespiritdying@gmail.com to discuss your situation and what draws you to this work. We’ll be happy to help.